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II. Experimental and development work for the Wehrmacht
All persons working together with Wehrmacht offices on the
development of new materials and processes which are of importance to national
defense, have to be informed in every case about the secret character of their
work. This can also concern state secrets, the maintenance of secrecy of which
is necessary in the interest of national defense (par. 88, Penal Code). The
"fact that there is collaboration" with Wehrmacht offices and the fact that
work is being done in a specific field, can be such a state secret itself.
On various occasions it has been proved that offices of the Wehrmacht
consider it a matter of course that IG officials dealing with the matters
concerned are sworn to secrecy, although our chemists and engineers have had no
idea about the necessity for maintaining secrecy about the information they
have received and about their legal obligation for secrecy.
III.
Planning work
Of late, the planning work of IG offices for the
Wehrmacht and for the Reich Economics Ministry (economic mobilization) as well
as for the Office for German Raw Materials and Synthetics (Four Year Plan) has
taken on greater proportions. This planning work also often brings with it
information which demands the same secret handling as direct Wehrmacht
questions; here too, the persons of the various works who are concerned have to
be informed as regards counterintelligence about the confidential character of
the information they receive.
IV. Security Measures
In
the three previously mentioned fields, processes subject to secrecy are
concerned of which the counterintelligence agents must absolutely be informed.
In works with special counterintelligence agents, the counterintelligence
measures have to be taken by them, whereas for the other IG works and IG
offices, this will be a matter for the counterintelligence agent of
Vermittlungsstelle W, Department A, to deal with separately, in agreement with
the various plants.
Apart from other intelligence measures, general
instruction of IG employees who are active on inventions or in spheres of work
described under 1-3, will be advisable. This instruction must include the
present regulations of the law, especially paragraph 88, Penal Code on state
secrets (as opposed to the general office and plant secrets), criminal
negligence, and the law for the amendment of the Penal Code of 2 July 1936, re
paragraphs 353 b and 353 c of the Penal Code concerning persons to whom the
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